WHY DOES FORGIVENESS FEEL SO HEAVY WHEN YOU SHARE A ROOF WITH THE ONE WHO HURT YOU?

Sometimes the pulpit makes it sound easy.

Forgive. Move on. Be the bigger person.

But you wake up next to the wound. You eat breakfast across from it. You share a calendar with it. A bed. A last name. Kids.

Scripture knows that house.

Hannah lived with Peninnah. "And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret... year by year." (1 Samuel 1:6-7)

Abigail lived with Nabal. "As his name …